Quick answer: Mueller Exploration, Inc. has 22 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 5 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Live Oak (45.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (73.7%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 281 |
| 2022 | 7 | — |
| 2023 | 3 | 9,383 |
| 2025 | 3 | 10,628 |
| 2026 | 3 | 10,541 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 3 | — |
Years with fewer than three permits are combined with at least one other year, so no single year's count is published.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 14 | 73.7% |
| Olmos | 4 | 21.1% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 28 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 101 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 57.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 80% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 10,561 ft vs 7,826 ft |
Groups with fewer than three permits are folded into "all other". Computed by Valor from public oil and gas data; refreshed weekly. Data as of 2026-09-29.
Mueller Exploration, Inc. has 22 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 5 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Live Oak (45.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (73.7%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 28 days and from spud to first reported production 101 days. 57.9% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 10,561 ft, versus 7,826 ft on earlier permits (+34.9%).
No. Valor publishes permit activity as statistics — counts by year, county and formation groupings of three or more permits, lateral trends and cycle times — rather than individual permit records.
These statistics are computed by Valor from public oil and gas data. © Valor, all rights reserved.